The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-03-24
TOWN AND COUNTRY
LOCAL LAcoNIcs PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.


tendance.
Mrs. NJ Dorsey who has been extremely
i'll for several days, continues quite sick,
we regret to learn.
Well for the husbandman who can say
his farm is all broke up-if it is a common
expression of slang.
President Cleveland was 80 years old
last Friday. Now if he VIZ $50 We should
suspect him of having been born in North
Carolina.
The Baptist Sunday-school institute
which meets here to-day promises to be
largely attended, and pleasant and prof.
table time is expected.
The best tobacco fertilizers extant are
always sold by d. Y. Cooper large lot
of the standard brands now on hand-G.
Ober & Sons and others.
The Germantown Independent says to the
man who proposes to start a garden this
spring, the neighbors chickens each look as
large as a baby elephant.
ooh why should the spirit of mortals be
proud" Because you can always buy the
best flour, groceries, provisions, etc, for
least money at Ill. Thomason's.
A numerical state-Tenn.-W Wichita
Arr0w The most important state to my
-Me-Ante5orO Advocate. To Cath
olic-Mass Saratoga Eagle. To covetous
persOn-MO.
Spring work has commenced in good ear
nest and farmers are moving things with
unusual vigor. The ground is breaking up
beautifully, the fruit crop is yet safe and
hope is beginning to animate the people.
Now that the merchants are getting in
their spring stocks, they should let the pub
lie know what they have to sell by we'll
displayed advertisement in the GOLD LEAF.
The judicious advertiser catches the trade.
Woe unto persons reputation who ven
lures to say anything about the weather
now. We know not what day may bring
forth Bright, warm and balmy one day
and cold, cloudy and rainy the next, apt as
not.
Do you want to buy fine blooded cattle,
sheep, pigs or fancy poultry? Ii so rare
opportunity will lie offered you as an
nounced in the advertisement of T. Love-
lock & Co., to be seen elsewhere in this
paper.
Man wants but little here below, nor
wants that little long" but when he wants
to drink, you know, he wants it pretty
strong.-GOLD LEAF. And after he has
drank awhile, he sings a different song
Gorham Nouatataeer.
To make good tobacco you must use good
fertilizers. ID. Y. Cooper sells the best.
Ober's Special Compound and other cele-
brated goods that have stood the test for
years. Used by the most successful grow
ers Of fine yellow tobacco.
Weather Clerk Greeley cannot resist the
temptation of ringing in on US a few sam
piles of weather to remind us of his expe-
rience and recollections of the Arctic re-
gions With this exception he is doing
pretty we'll for new hand at the business
woMAN's SPHERE.
They talk about woman's sphere,
As though it had a limit;
There's not a place in earth or heaven,
There's not task of mankind given,
There's not blessing or woe,
there's not a whisper, yes or no,
There's not life, or death, or birth,
That has feathers weight of worth,
Without woman in it.
-EacAange.
The GOLD LEAF is indebted to its young
friend and townsman Arch Cheatham, fol
an invitation to be present on the occasion
of the Forty-ninth Annual Commencement
of the Medical College of Virginia, Thurs
day, March 3lst, at 8 P. NJ, at the Rich
mond Theatre Richmond, Va. Hon. A
NJ Waddell, of North Carolina, will de-
liver the Grafton.
Everybody loves lover" and if far,
mers do not love to get big prices for theil
tobacco always, then we have failed tt
read human nature and the stars Alright
But in order to get big prices they mus
raise fine tobacco, and to do this they must
use the best fertilizers. G. ODER & Son:
Special Tobacco Compound is what they
want. For sale by D. Y. Cooper.
With real pleasure we announce the fac
that DR.. Lafferty has consented 20 lectur,
in Henderson Wednesday evening, April
sth. 1t is needless to say that so talented
and polished a gentleman as Rev. J. j
Lafferty, with so fruitful theme as THE
Old Times and the New" will treat us t.
rich literary feast, while his natural ten
dency toward wit and humOr will temp
him to throw in enough of the spice of vari
ETY. to make it enjoyable as we'll as edify
ing Let us give him full house.
The editor of the GOLD LEAF acknowl
edges the receipt of a complimentary Ger
tificate of membership in the North Caro-
lima Teachers Assembly, he having beel
honored by being elected an honorar,
member of the same, by order of the Exec
utive Committee. The fourth annual ses
sion of the Assembly will be held at tn
Atlantic Hotel, MOrehead City, from Jun
14th to 29th, 1887. Edward A. Alderman
President Robert S. Arrowood, Treasurer
Eugene G. Harrell, Secretary, Raleigh
NC.
A correspondent of the Charlotte Chror
tcIe, writing from Kings Mountain, say
this of the very capable and efficient Super
intendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum
DIR. B. F. Dixon, than whom we know n
more excellent and high-toned Christia
gentleman "Dr. Ben Dixon, of the o.
ford Orphan Asylum. was In town las
week. visiting his father-in-law, DR.. ]. W
Tracy. DR.. Ben was resident of Cleve
Land county before he turned orphan
He is not only known in Cleveland county
hut all over the State as a man of brain /